Book Description

This resource give English teachers practical management techniques and 60 ready-to-use activity packets containing over 180 reproducible student activities for teaching reading and writing skills through a variety of classic, popular, and current literature. Each of these literature-based activity packets offers students the chance to learn language skills within the context of an entire story rather than in isolation, and is easily correlated with other subjects across the curriculum. Each also opens a new world of ideas and places to your students. For easy use, the "Kit" is printed in a big 8-1/2" x 11" format that folds flat for photocopying of the student activity sheets and is organized into two sections: Part I, Managing Your English Classes, identifies the elements of effective English classes and the role of the whole language teacher, and provides specific guidelines and tools for managing reading, writing, and evaluation. Part II, Ready-To-Use Activities, presents reproducible activity packets for 60 different novels, including 20 each for grades 7-8, grades 9-10, and grades 11-12. Here are just a few of the works featured at each level: Grades 7-8: "Call it Courage" by Armstrong Sperry ... "The Upstairs Room" by Johanna Reiss ... "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le GuinGrades 9-10: "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles... "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden "by Johanna Greenberg ... "Night "by Elie WieselGrades 11-12: "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne..."The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros..."Watership Down" by Richard AdamsEach literature packet includes a brief synopsis of the story, ideas and concepts for the teacher to highlight, areproducible writing assignment, reproducible questions for students to consider after reading, reproducible projects and activities relating to the novel and connections with other subject areas. You'll find these activity packets are completely flexible. They are suitable for whole-class, group, or individual learning. You may assign all of the questions or just some; you may form groups and assign each group a different project. You may even use them cooperatively with another content area teacher. In the author's words, "This resource provides you with an opportunity to teach English skills through exciting literature that covers various genres, themes, and cultures. You will be not only teaching the skills for effective reading and writing, but also helping your students to experience the world."